>> thank you very much. am i cross. next speaker, please. ~ miss cross thank you for this opportunity to speak before you today, supervisors. i'm going to speak to the small criteria for the lbe, specifically the public works and construction area. [speaker not understood] the annual gross receipt. my name is aaron [speaker not understood]. we've been a contractor in the city and county of san francisco since 184 when the original law was put in place. ~ 1984 the program has not expanded under inflationary pressures. i think the construction deals with a lot of regulatory costs that are controlled by the

contractor and have a strong trim line above ip flation. it is not expanded, the economic real value has not increased and therefore is diminished. the screen before us is a screen shot from the bureau of labor statistics showing that there has been over a 124% [speaker not understood] since 184, ~ 1984. if you take the cap since public works, it would be 36.3 million today [speaker not understood]. and i just wanted to show some major cost contributors to the area of public works construction. oil is a major cost contributor and has increased over 32 3% or more than 2.6 time inflation since 1984. concrete another major cost contributor has increased over 287%. and pcc pavement or concrete pavement has increased over 1.63 times inflation.

i'm not asking for change, but i want the same program that was in original real terms, maybe some indexing, you know, or just this issue being addressed and i never heard it addressed before so i want to bring it before you today. of the original 14 million if you take the average annual inflation, costs 565,000 per year. thank you. >> thank you very much. if you want to submit that powerpoint to us, that would be good to see. i'll leave it right here. >> great. next speaker, please. good afternoon. my name is andrew mellon. i'm with shaw pipeline, another lbe here in the city. following on from what aaron was saying there is 124% cpi increase, if you reduce that, a company doing 15 million per year, could be equivalent in size to a company in 1984 to a

company doing 1.67 million. a company today could conceivably be above the small lbe initially would have qualified as a microbe. [speaker not understood] open to reflect company sizes closer to their equivalence at the original start of the program. another factor that is pushing us closer to the cap without any growth in the company is the composition of public works jobs tending to change. whereas you used to have water, sewer, paving job which makes a lot more sense from a practical standpoint, but also means we may get a project worth 5 million, but we'd be subcontracting out 2 million of it. so, three of those contracts in the air would put us at 15 million or we'd only be doing 9 million of it ourselves. lbe programs assisted us, small

[speaker not understood]. ideally we feel the companies in the program that are successful and want to expand could do so and by the time they are going out of the program they have a sufficient size to compete with the larger companies and they benefit from economies of scale. this would also go towards president chiu's point of trying to get more dollars going to the lbes. a lot of the larger projects they are not large enough to be equipped to handle those. thank you for your team. >> thank you, next speaker, please. good afternoon, i am [speaker not understood] construction company. founded my company in 1995. since then [speaker not understood] for city and county of san francisco. for the last 10 years or so, i

employed approximately 40 trades men full time, approximately half of whom reside in san francisco. mostly performing sewer and water work in san francisco [speaker not understood], the actual work performed and number of employees required has not changed. we're not large company in any way. we work out of a store front in the excelsior district. with the help of lbe program, we have been able to keep our employees and working and tax paying part of the community. we believe that lbe communitiv and other [speaker not understood]. all i hope for that is annual receipts limit increase from

the 14 mill established years ago, [speaker not understood]. i'm going to be able to keep my employees working and living in san francisco doing the work that we are best. [speaker not understood]. so that our companies continue to work in san francisco. thank you for allowing me to speak. >> thank you very much. are there any other members of the public who would like to comment? anyone else like to comment? if you want to just line up over by the television by the window. thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to speak. my name is pete [speaker not understood] and i represent national association of minority contractors. president chiu referenced about data, getting access to data immediately. we do have a solution for you. that you can get the data immediately and it's used by the corporate america today,

integrating a lot of their system. >> you'll probably have to take a contracting process to be able to use it. yes, i know that, and that's one of the reasons i haven't approached the city. it's out there. the second reason i'm here i appreciate you looking into the 14b, i think it can be improved. helping local businesses, local businesses will hire more people, provide jobs in the community and i think, you know, if you can do more with the 14 b making clear that the local lbe companies that are in san francisco hire people to work that they get access to contracts and opportunities and that's what i'm here for. thank you. >> thank you very much. i don't believe there are any other speakers. and if there are no other speaker, we'll close public comment. [gavel] >> and give it to president chiu. >> just a final concluding comments. first of all, i appreciate

everyone being involved and your patience and waiting for what has been a long day. i think the fact that we had so many members of the community that wanted to wait to speak to us about this is a rereflection of the fact how important this topic is as i think one of the commenters said, this is not a sexy topic, but it is incredibly important for the future of our local and diverse communities that we get this right. we have a real opportunity every year with hundreds of millions of dollars to use that economic stimulus to good. but my concern is that we are wasting and squandering that opportunity and i do know that everyone in the room today wants to make sure that we do this better. i also want to say that i have a great deal of sympathy for the city staff who have been tackling a new system and i think are under staffed for the task that we need to have to get a handle of where our data

is and how we analyze this in a way that gives us future steps forward. i want to thank the controller's office for their offer to work with our cmd office and really figure this out. it's my hope that we are going to have a lot more information in the coming months, not just through the new system, but with the fact that we have a new lde advisory committee. i want to make sure in the next couple of months we're really focusing on this to figure out how we improve ourselves. what i'd like to do is continue this item to the call of the chair and likely come back in a few months for an update of of where we are, particularly after the next quarter's information ~ we'll have a better sense of how things are working. hopefully with the controllers hopefully be able to under the metrics and some sense of where we want the data to go. and begin to really gather all of the different ideas and how we amend 14b to really work for year 2014 because when this

passed in 1984, we've learned a lot over the last 30 years, but there's a long way we need to go. with that, mr. chair, i appreciate your patience here and thank the members of the public and we are all going to work together hopefully in the coming months to reform 14b, get us in a better footing and really use our city's purchasing power for our community. so, with that, if we could, i'd like to make a motion that we continue this to the call of the chair and we will go from there. >> okay, very good. i want to appreciate the presentation from staff, but more than anything, the people in the community who are here today. i would actually like to get some briefings from members of the community as well. i was working closely hearing from ann cervantes, but i know there are other folk part of the american asian contractors be good to hear from well. as well. perhaps we can have a meeting in my office to get more feedback from people as well ~

and i'll be working closely with president chiu changes that we can make to the 14b program as we make it easier, more accessible and coherent for folks to be able to participate in and maximize participation in san francisco from our local contractors. okay. so, we'll take that motion to continue to the call of the chair without objection and i think that will end our committee meeting for today. [gavel] >> i want to thank our clerk, linda, for your work and we'll see you next week. [adjourned]hub.

>> hi, i'm jean yes my name is jean and sometimes, people call me sir, girl. san francisco has served our sewer system and it's no square feet it's a matter of time. that's why we're planning major upgrades public health depends on it that. see how this important work is

done. i was fascinated by it. we're going to creek. i would recycle you to come up and see the sewer system in minnesota that's why we see this through the plant. a lot of people don't realize how much work sgo goes into cleaning the water were. we offer free service to san

could you rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> mr. president, i would like to call the roll. >> president mazzuco. >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> chan. >> present. >> kingsley, in route. >> loftus. >> ladies and gentlemen,

welcome to the monday, february fifth san francisco police commission meeting and wednesday, my gosh, it seems like monday. >> it is a good start to even wednesday, february 5th and we will start with a line item number one, adoption of the minutes. >> adoption of the minutes, action. for the meetings of january 8th, 22nd, 2014. >> commissioners you have the minutes in your packets are there any corrections? >> i do have one change. >> move it to you. >> i have suggested a change in a long time. this is very minor, i just want to note that during the presentation of the language access, and the report that we node the video, the training video. >> okay. >> she is mentioning that in there, it would be helpful. >> anything else commissioners? >> i want to thank resa and

inspector monroe for preparing the minutes and it takes a lot of effort to get that ready and are there any public comment regarding the minutes, hearing none, the public comment is closed. do i have a motion. >> move to adopt with the change. >> aye. >> consent calendar and receive and file action, police commission report of disciplinary actions of 4th quarter 2013 and the request of officer john ruggeiro for approval to accept a $25 starbucks gift card from loern lopin. >> let's start with the police commission report, and you do have that in your packet and are there any corrections or comment regarding these items? and with reference to the request of officer john ruggeiro to receive a starbucks gift card for $25 or more, are there any questions or concerns

noteworthy? >> i hope not. >> that is right. >> is there any public comment regarding these two matters? >> hearing none, public comment is closed, do i have a motion? >> i move to second. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> thank you the public is now address the commission

regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or occ personnel, nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but, may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments to three (3) minutes. >> good evening, miss bryson, how are you? >> i am focused and i come again bearing glad tidings. my name is jackie bryson and i am here to commend two officers out of our tender loin station as well as captain turner since he is the commander and the commander sets the tone for the entire station. and i have to put my positive spin on these, because, if you were just to be the facts, you may think, oh, it is a criticism, it should have gone differently, but it turned out okay. i went into the tender loin station on january 26th, to file a police report and the officer who was behind the counter was new to that station. and they had not shown him where all of the forms were and

so he could not find the interview form that i needed to fill out. he tore that front counter area apart, looking for the form. and he could not find that form, but he did find incident reports forms and he said that i know this is the wrong form, but please fill this out. and so, for officer david lee and the star number, 398, i want to say a big thank you because it had to do with a vicious and dangerous dog and he typed in the information from that form and as a result of that, i got a call from officer denny who is in charge of the vicious and dangerous dog or bad dog unit. and spoke with him on the phone and i was told that i could go to the tender loin station and get a copy for the dangerous dog form. so i said please mail one out to me and use the turn address and the office of the chief of police rather than the

dangerous dogs because i wanted to see if i actually got my letter and i went down to the police station and officer green could not find the form i needed even though my instructions were type in vicious for the police website, he found for bite but we have not gotten that far but he went back in and he googled and managed to find the form for me. so i got the form and i filled it out, and i took muni, and went down to animal control, and turned the form in so i now am on track for a march 6th hearing. and so, for officer green, i would like to thank you for your diligence and in going back in and having to google a form, and i want to thank officer lee, i don't have officer green's star number and officer lee for giving me something to figure out and

then putting this in. so, again, thanks and to captain turner who is a good and positive and receptive atmosphere, at least from me. >> thank you miss bryson. good evening mr. hartz. >> good evening, commissioners, ray hartz, director of san francisco open government. as you probably are aware that i have not been here for several months because i was awaiting the hearing before the sunshine ordinance task force because i wanted it on the public record that what had happened was i felt an attempt to intimidate me at at the last meeting. first i would like to say to the committee regarding executive director hicks, i believe that everything that i have seen and experienced, again, in dealing with her, showed her to be a very intelligent, highly professional extremely competent individual and so for me to say something which was

intended to disparage her is not something that i would do. it would be counter productive and it would make me feel like a fool and it is something that she did not deserve. and in fact, i think the character assassination that was attempted at that meeting was done by the accusation that my quote from shakespeare was intended to do that. it was not. i was very, very careful, both orally and in writing, to indicate that i was talking directly about the report that was being considered that night. now the only person on this panel that seemed to get that, was commissioner turm an who basically said, i'm not sure about the comment, but mr. hartz has a point. one of the things that i have learned in dealing with a lot of city commissions is that someone's right to speak will be violated and everyone else on that commission will sit there and do and say nothing.

recently, at a board of supervisors meeting, as i approached the microphone having been identified as the next speaker, i made it one word comment, and nothing says the rules that i have to be at the microphone to make that comment and all of a sudden, mr. cchiu, the member of the harvard law school said that i don't think that we are going to allow the public comment for the next speaker, so basically what we are saying is that the members of a commission, if they don't like your tone or a word that you use or your voice or something that you say and in this particular case i had sent copies of what i intended to talk about to all members of the board supervisors and i can simply strip of you your constitutional rights. and the same thing there the

members of the board of supervisors sat there and they did nothing at all. and i think that you have to remind yourselves that you take an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and someone who violates the first amendment rights of a citizen is violate thating oath and someone pro-sits back and does not do anything is also violating that oath. >> next speaker? >> hello, my name is michael petrelus and i am a gay blogger and a transparency activist and i am here about a couple of things and i am here about a couple of things tonight and first of all, i the disclosures

regarding the gifts and what was not being done on your website and 7 months or so later, i'm still waiting to be called in to give some more information or to see this thing move forward or be dismissed and what is going on with the occ, i feel it is like a waste of time to file these complaints. and i want to move along, and about two weeks ago i happened

to catch on video more nan a dozen cops arresting one drunk guy in the mission. a lot of folks were complaining that there are were so many cops to arrest one drunk and i think that you got to remember the perception that we see from that is an excess of police force, okay? and the same thing on the same theme of excess police, force, and this weekend, if you knew this in the castro, it is on the sfweekly website and one of the nudist is taken down to the ground and you have three or four cops trying to arrest him and he is in pain and he is nude. how much of a threat really is he nude. and the last thing has to do with chief, you again, and you appeared recently at a press conference with ron con way regarding a million dollar reward for some gun control stuff. there is a problem in the

community where we are not getting transparency from sfcity. regarding a lot of the public policies they are developing for here at city hall. and every time that i see you appearing with ron con way, i wonder, you know, is or was the chief were to appear with me calling for the transparency of sf city, i don't know, and i just kind of feel like the perception is really reinforced that you are too close to him and you are not... >> and it is just there and thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening, everybody. >> you all know who i am, and i will state who i am any way. maria bailey, and really quick in short, i see, the differences that are happening around the city and i'm really proud of mayor ed lee for zero tolerance on crime and so forth

that is a good one and now, you know where i live and you know that i don't like crime, and the corruption in any area, but, i would like to see once again, i am repeating myself, more patrol on foot in cars and under cover, if you could do that, that would be fantastic because the crime still exists and you know that. and so thank you very much. much report. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening, miss brown. >> hi. >> my name is paula brown and i like to use the overhead. as usual. >> i am here concerning my son, aubry who was murdered on august 14, 2006. this case is still not solved and still yet to be solved. and i am still looking for justice for my son and i keep

showing these names of the people or the perpetrators that were there that shot my son on that day and i am showing these in hope that somebody will recognize who these persons are and come for forth. and give me some closure. so, i keep showing these names because of that and i am not only for my son, but i am here for all of these young men that have been murdered and these are all unsolved cases and i speak for those mothers also and we are just looking for justice. for our children. but again, i want to keep showing these names of the people that were involved with my son's case, especially